A charming individual, dklover@hotmail.com, has been posting abusive comments (now deleted) on an old post of mine, accusing me of over reacting when I laid into some idiots who decided to use the word gay as an insult.

His/her latest missive is presented below, as he/she didn’t included any punctuation I’ve had to guess where one sentence ends and the next begins.

you must be the biggest loser on earth not one person has wrote to you for a long time so i thought i should say some thing

A few facts first, since your last comment on 23rd November, six people have posted comments here (some multiple times, hi Jack) and a further three people have commented on the LJ mirror of this blog. As I’ve only posted seven posts in that time that’s fair number of commenters for a modest little personal blog like this.

your last comments were quite rude implying that im gay and bigot

They were meant to be rude. You came to my web site and attacked me, you reap what you sow.

However, I did not imply that you were gay - I suggested that you might have fun in a gay bar, something that lots of straight people do all the time. Also, I did not imply that you were a bigot - I stated it clearly.

well thats a big word for a small minded person like your self you are strait up and down stupid and i dont have to go off at the deep end like your self and try and use words hat you dont even understand good one brainiack

Bigot. Five letters, two syllables, easy to pronounce, quite easy to define. That may be a big word to you - judging by your spelling, punctuation and grammar you have problems with the English language. However, as your IP address resolves to the Netherlands you may well not be a native speaker.

ha ha ha your such a fool i await your reply wich im sure will be inthrouling

Did you mean enthralling? I don’t know about that, but I’m sure this post will raise a smile or two somewhere.

There’s a feedback form on a web site that I have to use quite often. As a security measure it rejects submissions that contain at least some types of HTML markup and JavaScript. However, one of the purposes of the form in question is to submit bug reports for a web application, including error messages. The error messages in this web app often include portions HTML and scripting. Sigh.

As the form is only accessible to signed in, paid up, users of the web app it shouldn’t be a target for random hackers. In most environments it’s possible for a programmer who knows what she’s doing to handle submitted text in such a way that no matter what it contains it will never be a threat. Allowing users to submit bug reports for the application they’ve paid to use should be made as painless as possible - they’ve already been let down once by the original bug, don’t let them down again when they report the bug.

Very True Mood: pensive